Mark Harper
Former Minister of State for Social Security and Disability of the United KingdomWikipedia
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Oct 21, 2026
5/2 Innovative thinking for Britain's trains and London's buses
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8:45Christian WolmarHOST
No,
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8:45Mark WalkerHOST
to be fair, I think you'll find it was Mark Harper and
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8:49Christian WolmarHOST
Hugh Merriman's era.
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8:51Christian WolmarHOST
Okay, fair enough.
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8:52Christian WolmarHOST
Mark Harper was actually planning to, he was actually saying, well, you know, people can get their uh internet services from uh outside which actually is very difficult on trains as you know because of the windows and tunnels and corners what else they don't need wi-fi on trains and now we've had quite rightly a complete reversal of that policy and we're going to get uh wi-fi on all trains i must say i did a radio broadcast from a train the other day i must say um and uh I was worried we would get cut off, but I was on a South Eastern train coming back from Hove at kind of 10 o'clock at night, and I was doing a radio interview on talk radio, and the presenter actually complimented me on the fact that the Wi-Fi was so good and that we could actually do a broadcast.
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9:44Christian WolmarHOST
So maybe things are getting better on that.
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9:46Christian WolmarHOST
Maybe we are making some progress.
‘Andy Burnham is Keir Starmer with a TikTok account!’ - Suella Braverman SLAMS Prime Minister
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23:25Suella BravermanGUEST
Uh, what had happened though is a lot of his acolytes had, you know, basically staged a coup over Liz Truss in the autumn, in the kind of September and October of 2022.
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23:36Suella BravermanGUEST
And because his lieutenants, such as, you know, Grant Shapps and Mark Harper and Michael Gove had very publicly criticized Liz Truss and then made her unstable, then he then came in with his candidacy.
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23:50Suella BravermanGUEST
And so-
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23:50Katherine ForsterHOST
You're not suggesting that the Liz Truss government was a success though?